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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

CFTR dictates monocyte adhesion by facilitating integrin clustering but not activation.

Doulathunnisa Ahamed Younis, Mason Marosvari, Wei Liu, Sunitha Pulikkot, Ziming Cao, Beiyan Zhou, Anthony T Vella, Sara McArdle, Liang Hu, Yunfeng Chen and 4 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Doulathunnisa Ahamed YounisDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.
Mason MarosvariDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0009-0001-1426-0570
Wei LiuDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0009-0006-4663-991X
Sunitha PulikkotDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.
Ziming CaoDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0000-0002-7570-3400
Beiyan ZhouDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.
Anthony T VellaDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0000-0003-4600-5504
Sara McArdleMicroscopy Core Facility, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, CA 92037.
Liang HuAcademy of Integrative Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 201203, China.
Yunfeng ChenDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555.ORCID 0000-0001-7618-107X
Wenqi GanDepartment of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0000-0002-7172-4992
Ji YuCenter for Cell Analysis and Modeling, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.
Emanuela M BrusciaDepartment of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510.ORCID 0000-0003-2149-4057
Zhichao FanDepartment of Immunology, School of Medicine, UConn Health, Farmington, CT 06030.ORCID 0000-0001-5385-9626

Funding

UTMB OAIC Research Education Component (REC)P30AG024832 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI JAMES S. GOODWIN, MD, MELISSA M. MORROW · 2005 to 2026
$26.7M
Molecular mechanism and preclinical translation of beta2 integrin auto-inhibition on neutrophil arrest and inflammationR01HL145454 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI FAN, ZHICHAO · 2019 to 2023
$2.1M
MiR-150 regulated adiose tissue B cells in obesityR01DK121805 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI VELLA, ANTHONY T, ZHOU, BEIYAN · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
ASCVD risk assessment in T2DM facilitated by novel computational immunology programsR01HL172239 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI Anthony T Vella, Beiyan Zhou · 2024 to 2026
$1.6M
Inhibiting biomechanical platelet aggregation to prevent arterial thrombosis without compromising hemostasisR00HL153678 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI CHEN, YUNFENG · 2022 to 2024
$746k
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) DAF2019-198153Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) 005693G223Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) 00841I221HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R00-HL153678HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01-HL145454HHS | NIH | National Institute on Aging (NIA) P30-AG024832NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL153678NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145454NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL172239NIA NIH HHS P30 AG024832NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK121805University of Connecticut Health Center (UConn Health) Starup Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monocytes are critical in controlling tissue infections and inflammation. Monocyte dysfunction contributes to the inflammatory pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis (CF) caused by CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutations, making CF a clinically relevant disease model for studying the contribution of monocytes to inflammation. Although CF monocytes exhibited adhesion defects, the precise mechanism is unclear. Herein, superresolution microscopy showed that an integrin clustering but not an integrin activation defect determines the adhesion defect in CFTR-deficient monocytes, challenging the existing paradigm emphasizing an integrin activation defect in CF patient monocytes. We further found that the clustering defect is accompanied by defects in CORO1A membrane recruitment, actin cortex formation, and CORO1A engagement with integrins. Complementing canonical studies of leukocyte adhesion focusing on integrin activation, we highlight the importance of integrin clustering in cell adhesion and report that integrin clustering and activation are distinctly regulated, warranting further investigation for selective targeting in therapeutic strategy design involving leukocyte-dependent inflammation.

Indexed as

Cystic FibrosisCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorIntegrinsMonocytesCell AdhesionHumansInflammationCFTR protein, humanCystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance RegulatorIntegrinscell adhesioncystic fibrosisintegrinmonocytessuperresolution microscopy

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PMID39813254
PMCPMC11760921

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